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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were the Rappites?
(a) Artist group.
(b) Rock group.
(c) Religious sect of the 1800s.
(d) Ohio rock formations.

2. What job does Tom West have?
(a) Tour guide.
(b) Commercial fisherman.
(c) Teacher.
(d) Lawyer.

3. What is Stacie McDougald running away from?
(a) Police.
(b) Abusive stepfather.
(c) Grandparents.
(d) Drug dealers.

4. What does William see on Route 33 in West Virginia that signals a hard life?
(a) Steel skyscrapers.
(b) Run down farms.
(c) Tidy, neat stores.
(d) Modern apartments.

5. Who takes William on a walking tour of Smith Island?
(a) James.
(b) Robert.
(c) Kerry.
(d) Alice.

6. What was the name of the first American ship to stop at the Northwest coast in 1788?
(a) Baltimore.
(b) The Mount Vernon.
(c) Lincoln.
(d) Lady Washington.

7. What subject does Arthur like to talk about to William?
(a) History.
(b) Sports.
(c) Religion.
(d) Current events.

8. What state is William in when he wakes up with a bad cold?
(a) North Dakota.
(b) Oregon.
(c) Montana.
(d) Idaho.

9. What does William dislike about driving through Montana and North Dakota?
(a) Potholes.
(b) Flat terrain.
(c) Muddy roads.
(d) Mountainous roads.

10. What name did Robert Owen give the town of Harmonie?
(a) Old Harmony.
(b) New Harmony.
(c) Harmonic Delight.
(d) St. Harmony.

11. What is Marion an expert on?
(a) Town history
(b) Vegetable gardening.
(c) Landscape painting.
(d) Birds.

12. What kind of town is Gassaway, West Virginia?
(a) Modern.
(b) Old railroad town.
(c) Resort town.
(d) Artist retreat.

13. What is the last sentence of the book?
(a) "Show me."
(b) "The circle almost complete."
(c) "I wanted to know."
(d) "Where else."

14. What is the Algonquian name for the river that means "white shining"?
(a) Chicago.
(b) Evanston.
(c) Wabash.
(d) Whitman.

15. How does William describe Cape Porpoise, Maine?
(a) Suburban paradise.
(b) Urban and sophisticated.
(c) White picket fence village.
(d) Messy and run down.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Marion once work?

2. What does the man tell stories about on the ferry ride William takes from Connecticut?

3. Where did William buy The Sacred Pipe, by Black Elk?

4. Where does William meet Pete Marvin and his family?

5. What town in Connecticut used to make clipper ships?

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